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finessingverbpresent participle of finesse to plan out usually with subtle skill or carehad to finesse the schedule a bit to fit in another patient that afternoon contriving, engineering, finagling, framing, machinating, maneuvering, manipulating, masterminding, negotiating, wangling arranging, concerting, concluding, hammering out, working outangling (for), compassing, intriguing, plotting, schemingconnivingbrewing, concocting, cooking (up), hatchingcaptaining, commanding, conducting, directing, handling, managing, quarterbacking, runninggerrymandering blowing, bobbling, botching, bungling, butchering, flubbing, fumbling, gumming (up), lousing up, mangling, messing (up), mishandling, muffing to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickerytried to finesse the blame for the foreign policy fiasco, even though he was secretary of state at the time avoiding, dodging, ducking, eluding, escaping, eschewing, evading, getting around, scaping, shaking, shirking, shuffling (out of), shunning, weaseling (out of) missingaverting, deflecting, diverting, obviating, parrying, preventing, warding (off)banning, barring, debarring, eliminating, excepting, excluding, precluding, ruling outbypassing, circumventing, skirtingfoiling, foxing, frustrating, outfoxing, outsmarting, outwitting, overreaching, thwarting fighting shy of, keeping clear of, staying clear of, steering clear of accepting, courting, embracing, pursuing, seeking, welcomingcatching, contracting, incurring |